A special treat from Boing Boing tv for your New Year's eve revelry, we're gonna sneak this one last episode in before the clock strikes 2009 here! Enjoy this music video for Sydney, Australia-based band The Herd, directed by the phenomenally talented Mike Daly. More about the band's
"glam/folk/tropical" music here. Every time we played this one in the BBtv editing bay, we all ended up dancing around the Final Cut windows. Mike Daly did incredible work here, there's not a frame of this I'd do differently, and it says so much about the year we're ending tonight, don't you think? Dig it, TRY not to dance, keep the faith my fellow mutants, and Feliz Año a todos ustedes, from all of us at the Boing Boing blogs, and the Boing Boing TV team! Peace.

I interviewed The Herd a few months ago at Brisbane’s Sounds of Spring. They were a friendly, funny charming group of people. I’d post audio of the conversation, but it was done backstage and consists more or less of kick drum and bass from the band that was playing at the time…

@#5 Justin France
I’ve been living in Australia for 12 years now and I can’t stop praising JJJ for what it is…I may be wrong, but I bet this combination of size/coverage/attitude/quality is fairly unique…ad free.

FrenchLemonade @13, neither the music nor the lyrics resemble “2020”. The only similarity is that the video for “Quicksand Under Carpet” also uses some daily newspaper imagery — and even then, it’s doing something quite different with it.

That’s like saying The Fountainhead and Dahlgren are the same book because both of them have an episode where someone throws a statue down an airshaft.